I WANNA BE ALFRED JARRY  SEE ALSO: www.Iwannabealfredjarry.me

  • For years I have been obsessing wiht Alfred Jarry - a proto-dadaist who anticipates the finest things 20 century art with Duchamps, dada, futurism and others have to offer. Due to his unsustainable life style - inspite of being a heavy biker - he died in his early thirties of drugs (PERPETUAL MOTION FOOD), absinth, and madness. Hence, he left many of his literary / artistic projects unfinsihed. .This is where I try to take up traces and crumbs to continue a nearly forgotten legacy.

learn about Alfred Jarry and see my bio-pic film:

 CE QUI ROULE - THAT WHICH ROLLS - EARLY FORMS OF ROLLIN' ROCK, 2008 

a film - 37 mim

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a film - 37 min

A series of works celebrating the not always nice but sometimes vicious Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907) as the most craziest bicyclist of all days

 

more works

see also : I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Vindex 1897, 2011, 16mm film  -

I wanna be Alfred Jarry, CLEVELAND - Toulouse Lautrec, 1896 / 1898 / 2011, 2011, 16mm film

 

Duchamp's ÉTANT DONNÉS revisited through the eyes of Alfred Jarry

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Étant donné - Use a Bicycle - a black and white 16 mm film, 2011

Counting backwards, Approaching the era of Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907), 2011

 

 

I wanna be Alfred Jarry exhibition , 2012

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have tea wih alfred jarry  - tea cup dicks

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see also: Iwannabealfredjarry.me

 

 

I wanna be Alfred Jarry . VINDEX BIKE DICK, 2011

16 mm film,black and white film

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see images.. stills etc.. productions

The Passion considered an uphill bicycle race, or I wanna be Alfred Jarry, 1903/2011, Tyrolian Alps, VIDEO 2011

 

The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race, 2011 - KOOIO Innsbruck, an exhibition

 

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more drawings

The 10.000 Miles Race.... - a theater

 

 

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Cleveland, Toulouse-Lautrec, 1896, 1897, 2011

16 mm black and white film

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see here work (mroe down . but thter iti s)

 

 

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CE QUI ROULE - THAT WHICH ROLLS - EARLY FORMS OF ROLLIN' ROCK - film props

 

 

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Ce Qui Roule - That - Which - Rolls (Early forms of rollin' rocks)

a theater play in 3 acts for stage

 

 

 

Rainer Ganahl, For Jarry, Henry Rousseau, Various Painters, 1895/2012 ff
Oil or acrylic paint on canvas - various sizes

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CE QUI ROULE - THAT WHICH ROLLS

a feature length film (release: October 2008) - story board

photos from the film set

 

 

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ALFRED JARRY'S CALL OF NATURE.. - a short film 5 min

 

 

 

alfred jarry reading

READING ALFRED JARRY / LIRE ALFRED JARRY, 2007 ff

a reading seminar

 

 

 

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PERPETUAL MOTION FOOD - A 24 Hour Re-Enactment

a performance without public

 

 

 

 

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In order to revive PERPETUAL MOTION FOOD, I'm sponsoring the german bicycle duo: Holm and Julia bicycling from Stuttgart

Germany to New Zealand: a many months long trip, longer then hte 10.000 Miles race, Alfred Jarry was writing of in 1903.

Alfred Jarry was a big bicyclist who stole his very expensive bicycle, had Jesus Christ race uphill for cruxification, and made his "supermale" hero race 10,000 miles against a train fed solely Perpetual Motion Food, the first bike known serious bike doping affair.

 

 

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry, 2010 - drawings and sculputres (porcelain)

 

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neon and photograph - Ha, ha, 2012 (bosse-de-nage)

SEE MORE on this Ha, Ha.

 

 

 

 

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Perpetual Motion Food - I wanna be AJ - if you really need it.

 

 

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I WANNA BE AJ - BELLS

 

 

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I WANNA BE AJ (Alfred Jarry) - BELLS, 201

I wanna be AJ - bell - video

 

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A NEW VERSION OF UBU ROI / UBU KIND / UBU REX / UBULENIN

ubulenin - a theater play

 

 

 

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AJ - I wanna be Alfred Jarry, 2011

bike tower

 

 

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Vindex 1897, 2011, 16mm film  -

 

 

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry, CLEVELAND - Toulouse Lautrec, 1896 / 1898 / 2011, 2011, 16mm film

 

 

Duchamp's ÉTANT DONNÉS revisited through the eyes of Alfred Jarry

 

 

 

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Étant donné - Use a Bicycle - a black and white 16 mm film, 2011

 

 

 

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Counting backwards, Approaching the era of Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907), 2011

 

 

I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Columbia, 1899 / 2008 / 2013

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